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Uncommon star 23 EP

HD 116186

RA 200.8174° · Dec -60.2272° · star

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
23 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Bright giant +12
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 23

11 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Bright giant · +12

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G5II+... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a bright giant, well on its way to the largest stars there are.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 8.1 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Centaurus.
  • Southern sky only. So far south it never rises for most of the northern hemisphere. To see it you'd have to travel to Chile, South Africa or Australia.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around April — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 13.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
1.202
bv
1.106
constellation
Cen
dist ly
767.4258
luminosity
28.7872
mag
8.06
name
HD 116186
spect
G5II+...

About HD 116186

HD 116186 is an uncommon star. It lies about 767.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Cen, shines at apparent magnitude 8.06 and has spectral type G5II+....

Its spectrum reads G5II+... — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for HD 116186 in the constellation Cen. At apparent magnitude 8.06, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 116186 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why HD 116186 is an uncommon star

HD 116186 scores 23 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 11 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Sun-like G-type star and Bright giant — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.